Otoko Nara Ikkokuichijou no Aruji o Mezasa Nakya, ne? Chapter 318

The interior of the room was just as we left it last time.
Starting with the Vampire Lord's corpse the other two vampire's corpses are laying around in the same condition with their magic stones taken out.

Around the entrance of the room where the battle took place I chose a slightly open area as our campsite and had Giberuti prepare dinner.
We all split up to see if we could find any kind of information.
Last time because we didn't spend much time at all searching I think there's quite a few things we probably overlooked.
I'm going to take another look at the things I determined were trash last time.

Several hours later, it was time for dinner preparations to be over.

We were able to gather several pieces of informative material.
First off, their living necessities.
There was cloth, string, and needles for repairing clothing and such.
Just these were different from the tablet and stuff as their name properly showed up in the status so the results of identifying them were just as I thought. Most likely they're different from the things that were originally in the s.h.i.+p(?) and they're items the Vampire Lord or someone else brought in from outside.

Furthermore there's a number of {Magic.Items} we overlooked last time.
One Ring of Sustenance{Glut.Fill.Ring}.
A single {Giant.Control.Horn} with five charges remaining.
A single {Climbing.Rope} with a hook attached to the end.
An {Illusion.Scepter} with 238 charges remaining.

And then the items believed to be important.
Two more tablets similar to the one I brought back.
However, we can't turn on their power(?) and my {Identify} says one of them is broken while the other one comes up as {Remains of I.Mi~.Ku - 67 Do}.
Also, there was another two more broken heat ray guns.
These I can use {Identify} on but can't see the status of them.
Including alcohol for fluids and such if you use {Status Open} on them they come up as a hyphen but just the same as that there's not even a name displayed in the status window.
All of the items that seemed to originally be on the s.h.i.+p(?) are kind of like that.

And then finally the equipment.
Above one of the shelves further in the room, in a place where you can't see from just standing on the floor(ceiling) we discovered several types of switches similar to a control panel. However, in the first place almost all of the switches are just the hardware and even if we try to switch them on or off nothing seemed to happen but there was just one useful thing we found.
Though it's just half of the lighting in the room.

Putting aside the jokes, among the consoles growing from the ceiling(floor) we discovered a slot that perfectly fits the size of those tablets.
Almost all of the console slots were covered in dust so even if they could be used it seemed completely impossible without cleaning them first but just two of the console slots were cleaned as if they had been in use.

I wonder if they can be used like a docking station for recharging?
If that's not the case then I'll be troubled.
In the first place I can't even tell if they're operating using electricity so I can't say anything at all though.

If we were to carelessly put it in and break it then it would be hte worst so for the time being I decided to start with investigating the tablet we have on hand.

I press the switch and turn on the power(it's already a pain explaining so just power is fine right?).

After a short wait I can confirm the flas.h.i.+ng cursor prompt requesting entry.

"What do you think I should do?"

Ralpha looked between me and the screen while saying but that's my line..the screen display suddenly changed to say that "what do you think I should do" is a "incorrect".
I turned off the power in a hurry.

"It uses voice commands right."

I nodded as Miduchi asked. But, I didn't think the sensitivity on it was this good...
Well then, after collecting ourselves once more.

I'm sure it's just that Vampire Lord's name right?

"Masetto.Deioku"

The tablet display showed "Ma~setto deio~ku" along with "incorrect".
I cut off the power.

"Huh?"

"You were wrong."

Ralpha said as if making fun of me but I thought it would be this~

"That name, is it the one from before they reincarnated?"

Miduchi said.
Ah.
It's true I don't know what his name was before he reincarnated.

The names I heard from before they reincarnated were..first let's start with this one since it's a full name I guess.

"Kamira.Erisuna"

The display of the tablet showed the text "Kamira.Erisuna" along with the words, "This equipment belongs to the Engineering Department. In order to operate in a different department please enter the group pa.s.sword".
I cut off the power.

I don't know it!

However, there's one more I know, though this one isn't the full name.

I turn the power back on again.

"Gein"

The display of the tablet showed the text "Gein" along with the words "Gein.Fu~guria.Ba~haddu". It came up for a short moment before suddenly displaying the words "Welcome, First-Rank Engineer Gein.f.a.guria.Bahaddu. Activating personal operation mode."

"Oh!"

After that there was several icons displayed on the desktop screen just like the smartphones and pads I used in the past. On the top right there was something like a bar graph showing the remaining battery so I was able to confirm it had about 80% remaining.

"Alright.."

...................................

I tried messing around with it for a bit but without a manual I can't really figure this stuff out.
I left Bel, Miduchi, and Toris to flipping it upside down since they seemed like they would be good at it and then we decided to have dinner first.
Of course, we tried calling out to Miduchi and the others as well but they just said "We're at the good part now" and told us to eat first.

It couldn't be helped so Zenom, Rodrick, Ralpha, Gwine, Basutoral, Giberuti, and I all had dinner without those three.

"I feel like the scenery in this room is just a bit nostalgic.."

Everyone other than Zenom and Giberuti nodded at Rodrick's words.

"Machines.."Computers" I guess..something like this, it's the first time I've seen it since reincarnating."

Basutoral said while taking another look around the room.

"That's certainly true but I still get the feeling it's somewhat strange right. Like the design"

Gwine whispered with a hotdog in one hand.
It's just as she says.
All of the consoles and such hanging from the ceiling(floor) in here don't have the scent of Earth.

The designs seem to put emphasis on slippery curves and when you sit down on the chair in front of the operation table the console seems to have a slope coming down from in front and the sides.
Not even the surface of the desk is a level surface but rather the center of it is caved in with a curved surface.
There's not a single thing resembling a b.u.t.ton on the console and not even anything like a keyboard.
It's not like there's a mountain of gauges either(not a single one).
Of course, there's nothing like liquid crystal or CRT displays as well.
Ah, didn't the monitor project into mid-air like a holograph was it?

We can't find a single switch but I wonder how in the world you operate it?

"Certainly..It's not a design that gives off a very good feeling.."

While saying that Ralpha continued biting into her hotdog and was.h.i.+ng it down with soup without seeming to be bothered by it at all.
Eat your food a bit slower.

"However, it's unbelievable that this could fly through the sky..you said it was different from that aeroplanes as well.."
"I don't understand anything about what's going on here."

It seems Zenom and Giberuti have abandoned trying to think about it as they stare at the box we're using as a trash can while eating cabbage salad and soup.

"..!"

Suddenly voices were raised from a bit of distance away where Miduchi and the others were messing with the tablet.
Ralpha seems to have gotten a bit interested in it as she ran over with the hotdog still in her mouth.
I thought about going as well but since I was still in the middle of eating I decided to go after I finished.

After all they've been acting like that every time some insignificant software application or whatever opens up so it's been a while since everyone stopped reacting.

"Giberuti, pour me some more bean tea."

"Yes, master. Please wait just a moment."

I watch Giberuti make a pot of tea while talking with Rodrick and the others.

"..Probably, that guy wanted to repair this s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p..Giving it his best for over 1,000 years.."

I glance at the Vampire Lord's corpse while whispering.

"If you become an undead then I'm sure you wouldn't even need to sleep after all.."

Basutoral added while making a slightly sad expression.

"Even I would if I had some kind of method to go back.."

Rodrick said while looking into the air.

"Me too..But, I don't understand it at all so there's no helping it~"

Beard-san made a lonely looking face at just the start but soon after started eating salad without a care in the world.
Seeing that the three of us all exchanged looks with bitter smiles on our faces.

Around the time I started drinking some bean tea, Miduchi and the others finally put down the tablet and came over to eat.

"How was it? Did you figure anything out?"

"Nn~ Several things I guess."

Oh!?

"That tablet, it seems the real way to use it is after putting it into the console."

Bel said but that's something everyone was somehow able to guess.
However, we've already confirmed that nothing at all happened after sticking it into the console slot.

"Even though we used it that much it didn't seem to use up much of the "battery" at all. It seems like we'll be able to mess around with it for another two full days or so without "recharging" it."

Toris said the good news. In the worst case if we can't recharge it then it'll just become a useless pile of junk so this is good news. At the very least we'll be able to test various things out for another two days.

"Was there any problems with the characters or language? It seemed like it didn't use "English" but the language of Orth after all."

What Miduchi said was just what I had expected.

"I see. After eating, we'll trying searching for any hidden doors that might open outside. There's still places we haven't gone to on this floor after all. During that time, I'll leave the tablet to you three."

I told everyone the simple plan and sipped on some bean tea.

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Starting from the conclusion and even if we presented the ID card none of the hidden doors(?) would open.
Even when we tried touching the door itself or the wall nearby with the card it wouldn't move at all.
In regards to this we guessed that all of them are locked because even that subordinate vampire had to go back and forth from that location on the 4th floor when he had an ID card.
In order to unlock the doors it's probably necessary to perform the operation from the console.

Also, we tried investigating down the other split paths but in the end they were dead ends and all that was there was more hidden doors that don't open along the way, there weren't even any monsters.

However, what was waiting for us when we returned with our shoulders drooping down was a major development.

It's getting pretty late at night and close to midnight.
Certainly it's true that it would be best to get some sleep but with some new developments right in front of us there's no way I can fall asleep.

By putting the tablet into the console with a certain application running the console started running.
However, it seems the majority of the functions of the console were lost(of course I'm sure my {Delayed Blast Fire Ball} was the number one reason) and on top of that we struggled quite a bit with operating it because it's still attached to the ceiling(floor).

This time excluding Zenom and Giberuti all of us spent over two days with almost no rest gathering information.

First off I'll start talking about the reasonable important points.
I'll bring up the really important points last.

There were limits on the information we were able to access using the authority of that tablet's owner(Though I don't know if he was the real owner or not. According to Miduchi and the others and it seems the original owner was a different person). Even then we were able to find out quite a few things.

This s.h.i.+p(?) itself was in fact not a s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p.

It seems when the main body of the s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p(we couldn't figure out the s.h.i.+ps name) crash landed on Orth it was completely lost. However, it seems this isn't an escape s.h.i.+p either. Though it's nothing more than a conjecture based on words with meaning close to the one's displayed but it seems the real name of the place we're at now is called the "Sixth Collection Terminal and Denaturation Device".

On the s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p that could be considered the mother s.h.i.+p there was a total of eight s.h.i.+ps with similar functions and this one of them.

It seems you can't call this device(?) a s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p as it's primary function is to perform Terra-forming of a planet and in the first place it was fired into the ground of this planet in order to remodel it.

Furthermore, this planet that we call "Orth" seems to be formally called "Rugu 3" by the civilization that made the s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p. It seems that the star system where Rugu 3 is the primary planet is an extremely unique star system even in the universe where the star that acts as the sun revolves around it.

Both the primary moon Karutari and the sub-moon Neitari were actually planets that revolve around Rugu 3 as well. Furthermore, Rugu 3 itself is rotating. This star system has a total of nine planets but the two moons are the first and second planets, and the sun is the third planet.
Beyond that there's another six planets.

And then, the solar system(the formal name this civilization uses for it is the Duvain 4 star system) which is where we originated from is in another spiraling galaxy in the galactic system.

It seems the original objective of the s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p was to absorb some kind of data from the gathering terminal and denaturation devices that it fired into several habitable planets in the distant past including Earth, and then separate from that they were also supposed to fire eight more new terminal and denaturation devices into Rugu 3.

Normally there's no interaction between these two operations.

Each of them are independent and should have been done as separate operations.

However, while no problems occurred in regards to gathering the data and they were able to progress with it without delay, after that it seems some kind of accident occurred in the middle of {hyper drive}. It's unknown exactly what kind of thing happened.

They returned to normal s.p.a.ce and then it seems some kind of trouble occurred when they were firing the gathering terminals into Rugu 3. This trouble was the cause and their s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p crashed straight into Rugu 3's sun causing all of the crew to die.

But, by the time they realized it they had received new life as inhabitants of this planet.
You could say they're the same us on this part.

One of these people was Kamira.Erisuna. And then, Gein, also known as Gein.f.a.guria.Bahaddu. Furthermore, it seems the original name of the Vampire Lord Masetto.Deioku was Tarubo.Fakuna.

Of course there were several other people as well. In one of the easiest places to access on the working console there was a file which was most likely a list of as many details as Tarubo the one who made it could remember.

Other than this list of people's names in the stuff I'm about to talk about I think all of our conjectures are probably included in it.
Though whether or not it's all true is something only G.o.d knows I'm sure.

It seems among the crew members who reincarnated there were those that encountered others and those who died without ever meeting anyone else.
In regards to this I couldn't think much of it because it's suspicious whether someone who they never met was actually reincarnated but that's what he guessed and since the list of reincarnated people was shown to him by G.o.d when he leveled up after reincarnating so it seems that was his confidence to conclude they had all "reincarnated".

And then among those who were fortunate enough to meet it seems before long they had split into two factions in a dispute.

Kamira.Erisuna and Gein were members of one faction while Tarubo seemed to be a part of the other faction. It seems that the faction Kamira.Erisuna and Gein were members of had the superiority but it seems that some member of a certain department in Tarubo's faction had deciding information about the s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p so they were never able to settle things between them.
Tarubo and the others faction wanted to somehow search for the s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p, repair it, and return, while the other faction had some similarities it seems they had a different ideology or some kind of understanding.

Additionally supplementing further and including when this s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p crashed it wasn't listed what date all of this happened.
Of course, we couldn't figure out or even guess when the s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p with this gathering terminal was made or when one was fired into Earth either.

In the distant past right, is the best guess we could make.

In that case the time difference with Earth becomes completely unknown but considering how I'm talking with you like this, I don't think they're all that far apart.

It seems that Toris and Miduchi were into SF novels in their previous lives so they came up with the hypothesis, "Was there some kind of time slip?" but when everyone rejected it they got stubborn and started going on about all kinds of crazy ideas like, "if you go at a speed beyond light then the possibility of connecting between the past and future is.." and "even with just a tremendous distance apart the way time advances is.." so everyone ended being unable to close things up as we all just replied "Yes~yes" to whatever they were saying.

Next up is an idea based on these facts which is a lot less credible, something considerably close to a delusion.

In regards to whatever the data that was being absorbed from several habitable planets including Earth but normally they were collected into a data-bank on the s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p. However, because of either the accident during hyper drive or artificial accident, though the reason is completely unknown, a portion of that data ended up influencing the gathering terminals that were fired into Rugu 3.

It's believed there's no mistake that these gathering terminal and denaturation devices are capable of gathering information about the culture and civilizations of living creatures through brain waves but through what method it's capable of modifying the planet is completely unknown.

The speculation was that at the very least this sixth gathering terminal ended up spreading information about aspects of English and j.a.panese culture to the area. Putting aside the characters there's aspects of the language that appear all over the place.

Isn't it same for the monsters? or at least that's what we were discussing but we couldn't come to a conclusion. Some of us thought that it might be possible for a portion of cultural data from Earth to be influencing things here while others said there's no way that's the case.

Miduchi and Toris even went to the point of advocating that legends and such told in various places on Earth might be some kind of adverse phenomenon where the data from the gathering terminal fired into the Earth caused a bit of influence there.

Bel and Rodrick fiercely argued back that it sounded idiotic.

There's no way we would be able to figure out any of that just by thinking about it and even if we did figure out I couldn't imagine it being of any help to us from here on out so Basutoral and I said to think about more useful things.

Meanwhile Ralpha and Gwine gave up on thinking entirely as they played games using the small round parts rolling around in the pile of trash.

Zenom couldn't keep up with anyone from start to finish so he just started maintaining his beard.
And Giberuti started cutting up vegetables while glancing at that from the side as if saying that making food was his job.

In any case not only did we not have access to very much information but we weren't able to obtain any definite information(things we could conclude were definitely facts) so no matter how many guesses we make right now there's not much meaning to it.

I activated the power of the leader and forcefully made them continue investigating the information.

Regardless of that the amount of information we obtained was far too little so in the end it doesn't really close well with tons of conjectures but it can't be helped.

According to Bel, it seems that the dungeon of Benkelish in Devas is also shaped like a crater like this Baldukk.
It's probably a different gathering terminal and denaturing device from this Sixth one.

I decided that in the future I want to try investigating there as well.

Putting that aside and in regards to the dungeon but it seems that this gathering terminal and denaturation device is performing some of the management of this dungeon of Baldukk. Though I say that it seems it's been a long time since a number of functions have malfunctioned so it isn't working normally.

We weren't able to obtain any information at all about the monsters in the dungeon but it seems it was originally some kind of experimental facility to create carbon based lifeforms. And then we found out that the data is different from what it was originally supposed to have. It's even possible that it's meant to cause changes or sudden mutations in lifeforms. At this point Toris and Miduchi's a.s.sertions were put aside and they were making depressed expressions.

Finally is the really important parts.

First off about magic.
Though we weren't able to obtain any defining information but the sole thing we figured out was that the crew members only touched magic for the first time after they were reincarnated.
In other words, there's a high chance that magic is something unique to this Orth.

Next up about the G.o.ds.
It seems that after all the G.o.ds actually exist.
Whether they're a higher order being or the will of the universe, or whatever else is completely unknown.
But, it seems through some kind of method it's possible to ascend to become a G.o.d.
Other than that we couldn't figure out much else.

And, about the other hidden doors.
This ended with the extremely unfortunate result of only learning that we wouldn't be able to figure out anything without a higher access level of the data since that was also necessary to unlock the doors.
Going off that Tarubo's words and it seems like there's still another terminal or something where we should be able to gain more information.

After that in regards to a map of Orth.
We searched as much as we could thinking there might be some kind of geographical data of Rugu 3 Orth from the s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p but not a single piece of information like that was rolling around in the areas we could access.
In regards to this we'll either have to login with an account with higher authority or somehow find a way to open the hidden doors and access the terminal that we're guessing might exist beyond them, otherwise there's no choice but to give up.

And then in regards to the facilities including the console where we obtained this information.
We were able to determine that the energy used to maintain the dungeon and the energy used to recharge the tablet and console are completely different, and the energy used to maintain this console is already on the verge of running dry.

For that reason we decided to stop investigating things here.
Anything more than this would require a higher level of authority for operating the tablet or console.
Furthermore, in regards to methods of forcefully opening the hidden doors with attack spells we had no choice but to give up.
The reason is because we obtained the information that if someone intrudes into the room through any unlawful method the facilities in those rooms will automatically start erasing all of the data on the terminals in them.
If the facilities aren't running then in the first place we wouldn't be able to look at the data.
If it is running then it would be erased. In other words a stalemate.

We also gained understanding about why several heat ray guns were left laying around without being repaired.
It was simply because Tarubo didn't have the knowledge required for repairing them and didn't have any data on the structure or method to fix them.
He didn't even have the right repair tools.
It seems from the start he was giving it best trying to somehow repair the broken console but in the end he wasn't able to properly fix it.

Now that it's come to this there's nothing left we can do at the current point.
There's no choice but to be satisfied with obtaining a decent amount of information.